During the evening event 3-8 is pleased to offer a screening of Révoltes Logiques (Logical Revolts), Louis Henderson’s 2012 graduation film project for his degree from Le Fresnoy (Studio national des arts contemporains). Taking as his starting point the discovery of the scenario for a film that was never shot, written by the UN in the 1950s and dealing with the Suez Crisis, Henderson went to the…

At a time when the extent of sexual violence is finally coming to light, when the victims, often vulnerable and in pain, still struggle for their voices to be heard – amid a climate of loneliness, doubts, lack of self-esteem, shame and fear of speaking out – how should we respond? Just grin and bear it, as some of our grandmothers used to say? How can we help ourselves? What kind of support,…

Katrin Gattinger has carried out a number of actions, including working the area where the fields of drawing and performance meet. One has to do with the spatialization of a form and the other with granting that spatialization its capacity to be an event, and in this their meeting point becomes the point of political commitment by way of the graphic gesture. At Rosa Brux Gattinger is showing a…

Today, like yesterday, migrant workers face issues and situations that profoundly affect their lives. The exhibition will include two moments for exchanges about lived experiences. In partnership with the Université populaire albanaise Le Commun, Rue des Bains 28, 1205 Genève.

Using a 1932 photomontage by John Heartfield, Vincent de Roguin offers us a critical and personal review of radical political imagery from the 20th century, from its mythological or revolutionary roots to its most regrettable contemporary reappropriations. Communist agitprop, Swiss fascism, German pop art, or British anarcho-punk, take your pick – Vincent de Roguin traces the history of…

STRAT est une association de prévention des violences qui organise des ateliers d’autodéfense féministe. Ceux-ci s’adressent aux femmes, aux filles, aux adolescentexs, et aux personnes trans*, non-binaires et intersexes, sans distinction de nationalité, d’âge, de poids, de taille, d’origine sociale, de croyance, de parcours, d’orientation sexuelle. L’autodéfense féministe que nous proposons est…

Using a 1932 photomontage by John Heartfield, Vincent de Roguin offers us a critical and personal review of radical political imagery from the 20th century, from its mythological or revolutionary roots to its most regrettable contemporary reappropriations. Communist agitprop, Swiss fascism, German pop art, or British anarcho-punk, take your pick – Vincent de Roguin traces the history of…

Discussion with Lars Bang Larsen, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, and Yann Chateigné (in English). The curator and art historian Lars Bang Larsen earned a PhD from the University of Copenhagen on psychedelic concepts in neo-avant-garde art with his thesis A History of Irritated Material: Psychedelic Concepts in Neo-avant-garde Art. His recent publications include The Critical Mass of Mediation (with Søren…

Vestiges réels et factices, strates géologiques et mnémoniques s’entremêlent pour déconstruire les espaces liés à la modernité et au monde civilisé. Ana Vaz pose son regard sur l’histoire de l’évolution à travers une représentation alternative des utopies civilisatrices et architecturales passées. Son film « A Idade da Pedra » (L’Âge de Pierre) prend justement comme point de départ la…

Starting in the 1960s, a decade when the politicalization of a part of the art world went up against the institutional art authorities, many demands were put forward regarding the status and working conditions of artists. From the first contract including a clause protecting artists’ resale rights conceptualized by Seth Siegelaub with the help of Bob Projansky to the more recent campaigns…

A kind of twilight, The Blue Hour provides the eponymous performance of Georg Keller (Zug/CH, 1980) with its metaphorical context. Creating three distinct figures, Keller elaborates a critique of the gamble that is the economy. A quick and sharp street vendor, aware that he is working illegally, does business out of sight of a department store salesperson, mechanically greeting potential…

The Particular Unity of Same and Other (an Amplitude) at Rosa Brux is the Swiss iteration of the eponymous exhibition currently running at Heden in The Hague, Netherlands. Both shows take shape around a recent trip Hendrikse made to Indonesia and reflect on the image that either precedes the foreigner, the outsider, or remains after they have left. The position of the foreigner is a crucial one,…

A naturopath who has been living in Lausanne for 15 years, Mireille Currat has become a specialist in women’s health, initially under the supervision of Rina Nissim and then through the course of daily experiences and exchanges with the women who come to her for treatment. She also draws on Kousmine and Ayurvedic practices. Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Rue des Vieux-Grenadier 10, 1205 Genève.

The clash of messages in this collection of political posters held by the municipal library sheds light on the relationships between Swiss citizens and guest workers as well as foreign workers generally. They concentrate the dynamics and key issues in the country’s past, present and future. With Charles Magnin, Historian An initiative of the Bibliothèque de Genève in collaboration with the…

From the book as an exhibition space to the form that escapes from books and takes over the space. The publisher Théophile’s Papers brings together at Rosa Brux the work of four artists published under the venue name for this show, which resonates like an unknown transcription on paper. Taking as their starting point the very core of their publications, Christian Aschman, Baptiste Caccia,…

En 1968, le théâtre à Genève s’est soudain senti concerné par ce qui se passait dans le monde. Au mois d’avril, peu de temps avant les émeutes à Paris, de jeunes acteurs comme Marika Hodji, Laurence Montandon, Jane Friedrich, Armen Godel et Alain Le Coultre se groupent autour de François Rochaix et de Marcel Robert dans la Maison des jeunes de St-Gervais pour y monter le Chant du fantoche…

Guided tours and exchanges with migrant workers of the past and present, in various languages and simplified language, partly in simultaneous translation. NMB, Faubourg du Lac 52, 2501 Bienne.

Domitila is an indigenous Peruvian woman who has been an undocumented domestic worker in Geneva for 20 years. When her daughter died a few years ago, she faced an unprecedented situation for her, i.e., economic hardship and extreme isolation because she spoke only Quechua and Spanish. Having reached the age of retirement but without any possibility of receiving a pension, she turned to a legal…

Bringing together activist archives and artistic practices, the exhibition Essayer encore, rater encore, rater mieux interrogates the shared sensibilities and conceptual links between art and political activism. It encourages visitors to think about the current relevance of past struggles. Faced with the inertia and conformism of institutions with which various independent movements feel no…

Bringing together activist archives and artistic practices, the exhibition Essayer encore, rater encore, rater mieux (Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better) interrogates the shared sensibilities and conceptual links between art and political activism. It encourages visitors to think about the current relevance of past struggles. Faced with the inertia and conformism of institutions with which…

L’histoire des Tréteaux libres débute à Genève avec celle du théâtre indépendant. Quelques jeunes parmi lesquel·le·s Bernard Heymann, Sylviane Fioramonti, Jean-Marc Bassoli, Jean Giuitta, Patrick Hannais et Annie Roussel décident de former en 1968 une troupe de théâtre itinérante, « libre de dire non à la guerre, aux conventions, libres de cultiver une fraternité créatrice ». Sous l’invocation…

Vanina Géré is an art historian and critic, an Anglicist and a specialist in the place of women in contemporary art. She studied at ENS Lyon, then obtained her doctorate at Sorbonne Nouvelle. From her time at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, this granddaughter of a Chinese immigrant has retained a keen interest in feminist studies and the representation of visible minorities. Today, she teaches art…

Les Bouffeurs de fer Shaheen Dill-Riaz (2007, 85’) Les inondations consécutives à la saison des pluies contraignent les paysans du nord du Bangladesh à chercher un emploi saisonnier dans le sud pour échapper à la famine. Embauchés sur les chantiers de démolition de navires à Chittagong, dans le golfe du Bengale, ils travaillent dans des conditions qui relèvent de l’esclavage. Cinéma CDD, Sentiers…

Vi Indigaïa est conteuse d’histoires traditionnelles, de création ou de récits de vie, elle allie cet art à celui de la danse car le corps a sa propre parole. Le chant et une prosodie rythmée font partie intégrante de son expression scénique. Elle porte une parole poétique, fantastique et politique, comme elle porte ses identités multiples de femme, noire et queer.

V.N.I (or U.I.V., unidentified voices) aims to join two women’s lives and voices, those of Bernadette Soubirous and a Belgian housewife, both witnesses who are heard, not seen. 3-8 invites you to listen to the underground rumors and oral accounts of meetings with extraterrestrials. Initially, you are invited to a screening of Lucile Desamory’s film Dark Matter, which takes us to 1989 and Belgium,…

Marie-Hélène Grinevald, an activist working for the right to housing, lived in a number of squats, i.e., Les Grottes and at 10 Avenue du Mail and 18 Rue du Conseil Général. She would like to revive the memory of Geneva the Undefeated with a walking tour of her former squats. Départ Le Commun , Rue des bains 28, 1205 Genève.

Back after a series of exhibitions and events around Switzerland, the books that were awarded the Fernand Baudin Prize (prize for the most beautiful books in Brussels and French-speaking Belgium) will be on display at Rosa Brux in a retrospective show featuring all of the prize-winners, from 2008 right up to the present day. Along with these prize-winning books, the gallery will also be showing…

This project is part of a process of remembrance that was launched in 2019 with the show titled Nous, saisonniers, saisonnières… (We Guest Workers). Originally mounted at Le Commun (Geneva, 2019), Nous, saisonniers, saisonnières… was shown some three years later in 2022 at the New Museum Biel (NMB, Biel/Bienne). Nous, saisonniers, saisonnières… brought to light a controversial episode from Swiss…

“Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In books you will find the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?” In the poem “Questions from a Worker Who Reads,” Bertolt Brecht laments the erasure of key actors in historical accounts. Isn’t the part played by the men and women who come to Switzerland from abroad to work also hidden away? In Biel and elsewhere, tens of thousands of guest…

“Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In books you will find the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?” In the poem “Questions from a Worker Who Reads,” Bertolt Brecht laments the erasure of key actors in historical accounts. When it comes to the boom in Geneva and Switzerland during the second half of the twentieth century, the role played by immigrant workers has been…

To confront the segregations imposed by the American cultural authorities during the 1980s, Group Material decided to temporarily convert the exhibition format into another cognitive mode. Their exhibitions, simultaneously complex and inclusive, mixed a variety of styles, ethnic groups, genders and sexual orientations in an attempt to abolish hierarchization in the art world and the domination…

To confront the segregations imposed by the American cultural authorities during the 1980s, Group Material decided to temporarily convert the exhibition format into another cognitive mode. Their exhibitions, simultaneously complex and inclusive, mixed a variety of styles, ethnic groups, genders and sexual orientations in an attempt to abolish hierarchization in the art world and the domination…

Working conditions and compensation in the visual arts 2nd meeting: compensation models Two years after our first meeting about artists’ working conditions, you are invited to a round table with: • Thierry Apothéloz, State Councilor in charge of the Department of Social Cohesion • Sami Kanaan, Administrative Councilor in charge of the Department of Culture and Digital Transition • Eelco van der…

A roundup of the current situation hosted by Rosa Brux and Hélène Mariéthoz focusing on the various Swiss initiatives and demands aimed at concretely improving artists’ working conditions. Guest speakers: Hélène Mariéthoz Freelance curator Yaniv Benhamou Attorney for Lab-of-arts, an association that works to promote artmaking by furnishing legal assistance to working artists in the form of a…